Is There Any Scripture That Describes the Size of the City Foursquare That Comes Out of Heaven?

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Answered by True Bible Teachings AI on 8/3/2026

1) Direct Answer
Yes. The Bible gives the size in Revelation 21:15–17.

2) Scriptural Explanation
The Bible says the angel “measured the city… The city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth… twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal… And he measured the wall… an hundred and forty and four cubits” (Revelation 21:15–17).

3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- “Foursquare” means its length, width, and height are the same.
- Twelve thousand furlongs equals about 1,500 miles, so the city is about 1,500 miles long, 1,500 miles wide, and 1,500 miles high.
- The wall measures 144 cubits (about 216 feet if using an 18-inch cubit).

4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the Scripture itself sets the dimensions. The city that comes down from God out of heaven is measured by God’s own standard—foursquare, twelve thousand furlongs each way.

What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?

Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.

SermonRelevance 49

Revelation, Chapter 4b Twenty-Four Elders

Sunday, the 1st of January 1961

61-0101 §17

And now, we find out... We left off last night, I believe, at the second verse, beginning on the third, I think it was. And we just left off with the voice of the trumpet (Wasn't that right?), the sounding of the voice. Let me read it all so we get back now: After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it was of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things... must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and,...

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SermonRelevance 49

Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride

Sunday, the 2nd of August of 1964 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.

64-0802 §190

and in here will dwell the redeemed. These avenues and big freeways, as it was, parks, and the river of life will flow---run right through it. And every house will be made of transparent gold, and the streets will be made of gold, and the trees of life will be there and will bear twelve manners of fruit. And the kings and the honored men of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into the gates, and the gates shall not be shut by night, because there is no night there! In that city where the Lamb is the light;...

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SermonRelevance 49

Daniel 9: Daniel's Seventy Weeks

Sunday, the 6th of August of 1961 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.

61-0806 §81

So what did I do? Got down there at Cairo, and I started to go up there, done had my ticket, about twenty minutes to calling time. Something said, "Not now. The cup of the iniquities of the Gentiles isn't full yet. The Amorites hasn't been fulfilled. Stay out of there." I thought maybe I just imagined that, and I went out behind the hanger and prayed. Said, "Stay out of there now." Then I took my ticket and went somewhere else. I didn't go, for the hour isn't yet. Now, what time that God's going to allow those Jews...

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SermonRelevance 48

Questions and Answers, Part 4

Sunday evening, the 30th of August of 1964 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.

64-0830E §31

Now, on... Now, this light on top of the mountain will not lighten the whole world, it'll only lighten the city. But it can be seen in the distance of thousands of miles maybe; but it won't lighten the earth, because the Bible said, in the new world, that from one Sabbath to another and from one new moon to the other, you see, will the people come up before the Lord unto Zion---up to the city to worship. And now, they will be outside the city, not the bride, but the people that come up in the second resurrection th...

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Church Age BookRelevance 48Broader match

An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages

Chapter 3: The Ephesian Church Age

CAB 3:E-104

Now that we have come this far, let me try to crystallize your thinking on this subject so you can see the necessity of our going into the 'serpent seed doctrine' as I have. We start with the fact that there were TWO trees in the midst of the garden. The Tree of Life was Jesus. The other tree is definitely Satan because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been placed there. They must have had a part in the sovere...

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